Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-12
SECURING THE DEAD.
An Exploring Party Breaks Into
the Nanaimo Mine in British
Columbia
Dead Bodies Recovered-Two Hundred
Lives Lost-Mexican Herders
Found Dead.
Supposed Due to the Earthquake-Floods
in Arkansas-Scuryy on Shipboard
lightning Storm.

NANAIMO, b. u. May Tine exploring
party that went down yesterday morning
broke through into the mine and discov-
cred the dead lying in all directions. All
nope is now given up OF saving any OF
them. Thirty-five bodies were recovered
from the mine. The fire is still burning,
but is under control. The mine is owned
by the Vancouver Coal Company, of Lon
don, England. The latest investiga-
tim shows that 101 whites and eighty
five Chinese were in the mine at the
timSof the explosion, At two o'clock the
body of Michael Lyons was found on level
No. l, 700 yards from the hoisting shaft.
He was mule driver about eighteen years
old, and was found at his station, near a
dead mule. The corpse was taken to a
school house where he lies, terribly burned
about the face and breast. His face is
black from the effects of the gas. His
father is still in the mine A cavern evil
IDENTIFY occurred just beyond where he was
lying. After the strlctest inquiry it is
learned that there are forty seven widows,
most of whom have large families. The
Cinnamon met last night and made ar
engagements for burying their country
men. Some of them refused to place
the dead in collins and had to be compelled
to do So The stores still continue to be
closed and little business IS being done.
Most of the men are from Cornwall, York
shire and Wales, and few are from Nova
plosion can not be exaggerated. Over 100
children orphans have already been count
ed The progress of subduing the flames is
proceeding rapidly and it is thought that
all danger of a second explosion is over.
EFFECTS OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, May 7.-Cimbres
Mesa, seventy-fve miles west of Albu-
buerque, on the Atlantic q Pacific railway,
is a rugged upland occupied by countless
fiocks of sheep which are cared for by
herdeGs who follow their hocks day and
night unseen by the owners for weeks at a
stretch. On Tuesday Hubert Gonzales,
large sheep raiser, rode over the
plains to inspect his focks, reaching
the Mesa at $3.50 p. m, and climbed to
the top of high rock to scan the country
in search of his herders at that moment
the sky become overcast; a low rumbling
sound seemed to approach from the south
west, and then slight tremble shook the
rock upon which he was perched, followed
immediately by loud report and severe
shocks which made the rock sway to and
fro like ship at sea. He was overcome by
Ideally sickness which almost caused him
To fall from the rock. Recovering, he
started by the path he had climbed, but
found the rock had been rent in twain,
leaving "a fissurc ten feet wide,
which accounted for the report he
mad heard He managed to regain the
ground, and remounting his horse rode rap
idly in search of his herders. Gonzales
found some of the sheep scattered and bleat-
ing with fright, but no herders were in
sight. A short distance further OF he was
Mortified by finding the body of one of the
men stretched upon the ground, dead. The
other two he found a mile away, both dead,
hut the bodies bore no mark of violence or
injury of any kind, and they We're scarcely
cold, the tleXibility of their limbs lndicat-
ing that death had overtalsen them all
rryIfh hat ,Lsae 1O6
}. been in the Mesa. The only plausi-
hle theory that could be formed as to the
cause of their death was that the extreme
fright caused by the terrible commissions of
the elements, which he himself had wit
messed, had killed the three men at the
same moment The expressions of their
faces, which bore the impress of fright and
terror sustained this theory, and it is be-
leved that these three men were perhaps
the only human victims of the great south
western earthquake.
ARKANSAS FLOODS.
LITTLE Rock, May 7.-Advices from
Clark County are that the rise IN the
Ouachita river at Arkadelphia yesterday
was fifteen feet and fearful overflow is
impending. People are moving to the hills
anu much destruction 10 property and
stock is feared, especially as many cattle
are in the bottoms and can not be driven out
III time.
LIGHTNtNG's WORK.
JAMESTOWN, n. V, May "A terrific
storm passed over this region yesterday
morning. Four buildings at Randolph were
struck by lightning and burned, and several
horses and other live stock were killed by
lightning. Fruit and forest trees suffered
considerable damage.
SCURvY ON A SHIP.
NEW YORK, May THE British ship
Bancla, Ills days from Manila, arrived here
to-day. During the voyage three of her
crew died of scurvy, another is at the point
of death and of a crew of nineteen men
only six are able for duty.
TORPEDO BOATS DAMAGED.
PARIS, May THE Temps says that a
number of torpedo boats were seriously
damaged ina storm while going to Algiers.
and that two have been dismantled and
four others locked for repairs.
Unpleasant For Phelps.
NEW YORK Nav THE Home Rula Climb